Network, disaster, rescue

After being able to boot into a real distro, I decided to
see if I could get networking booting. The kernel did end up
finding the AMD PCNet32-chip inside the WT300, but it
couldn't send or receive any bytes through it. Looking
around in the /proc-directory revealed that the interrupt
allocated for the chip didn't fire. That basically meant
the PCI-interrupt was routed wrongly, which ended up
as being a BIOS-problem: the PCI IRQ-routing-tables
of the device I based my LinuBIOS-config on had its interruptlines
routed differently from my board.

Trying to find out what's wrong, I ended up measuring
some pins with my multimeter, and that's where I must have done
something wrong: the next time I turned on the WT300,
the networkchip wasn't detected anymore: I seemingly had blown
it up.

Deciding I had invested too much time in the project to
let it go now, I got online and surfed to Ebay, Marktplaats and
other sites to see if I could retrieve another one. I found
someone offering 21 units, and to make a long story short: other
people I knew seemed interested in such an unit too, so I
bought them all for a really low price. That meant I had some
units to spend, and that's when I decided to realize something
I always have wanted to do: make a cluster of computers which
could compute stuff together.